diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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@@ -16,3 +16,5 @@ Prometheus uses GitHub to manage reviews of pull requests.
   and the _Formatting and style_ section of Peter Bourgon's [Go: Best
   Practices for Production
   Environments](http://peter.bourgon.org/go-in-production/#formatting-and-style).
+
+* Be sure to sign off on the [DCO](https://github.com/probot/dco#how-it-works)